We will have a forestscapes listening lab as part of the “more-than-human mappings” Livingmaps Network Conference, on 24-26th April 2025 in London.

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Forestscapes listening lab

Jonathan W. Y. Gray, Maud Borie, Andrés Saenz de Sicilia, Liliana Bounegru and Angela YT Chan

How can generative soundscape composition enable different perspectives on forests and ecological futures in an era of planetary crisis? The forestscapes listening lab explores how sound can serve as a medium for collective inquiry into forests as living cultural landscapes. It will present sound works cocreated by researchers, artists, environmental groups, creative technologists to provide fresh perspectives on the lives of forests from critical feminist and multispecies justice approaches.

The project explores sound and other media recomposition through open source software and hardware, to attend to the many different ways that we narrate, and relate to forests, forest issues, and restoration efforts.

https://publicdatalab.org/projects/forestscapes

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More-than-human mappings - Livingmaps Network Conference 24-26th April 2025

Stewart House, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Ideas about the ‘more-than-human’ have developed extensively over the past two decades, despite their longer histories, in various disciplines that have challenged the dissociation of humans from other species and things. This has attracted the attention of artists, activists, academics, policymakers and others. Many now agree that decentring the human is essential if we are to meet the pressing challenges of our world, in both local and global contexts.

Yet, only a small fraction of this work has used mapping practices to tell more-than-human stories, histories and practices, or used mapping to engage wider audiences with these issues. We believe that the time has come to gather together the threads of more-than-human mappings into a special event, to share our knowledge and ideas, to exchange good practice, and inspire each other. The conference will explore more-than-human ways of thinking about maps and of doing mapping; maps of the more-than-human; or embodied processes of mapping that attend to non-representational ideas of liveliness.